New initiative allows Black teens to discover their ancestral links to Africa
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Mar 03, 2021, 11:33pm EST
Some Mercer County students will be a part of the inaugural class of the African Link Initiative – a birthright trip to Ghana.
Xavier Penn is an eighth grader at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School in East Windsor who will be participating in the program.
“We’re finally learning our history that we never knew,” he says.
Penn says that he was excited to be nominated for the program and has a hope of deepening his knowledge of Black history beyond slavery.